Bringing Livejournal Back (I do it because it feels good)
The other day, I got tired of ads on the internet.
I don't usually begrudge most ads, and I'm sort of fond of the text ads that tend toward the relevant.
On the other hand, if an ad includes stealing focus, loading slowly while preventing the content I actually want to see from loading, video, or audio, in desl 's America, you'd be tarred and feathered. (This is hyperbole, but seriously, I have strong opinions.) That slow loading thing triggers a lot of spite from me, as I'm pretty good at ignoring anything visual. Audio still bugs the shit out of me.
So I broke down, after being started by some "Congratulations, you've won..." audio thing that I didn't want to hear and installed adblock for the chrome browser, which is my browser of choice on my personal laptop. (It's my browser of choice because it loads everything faster, and I like getting at things faster. I do not suffer fools gladly, especially if those fools are bloaty bits of browser software. (I find, in my highly in no way scientific study that Chrome loads pages faster than firefox + adblock or safari in any state).
So hooray adblock for chrome. It's made my life that much better. So I donated to the author, who apparently just went full-time on that project to the exclusion of other work.
If you're so inclined: chrome.google.com/extensions/detail/gighmmpiobklfepjocnamgkkbiglidom
BTW, donating felt great!
I don't usually begrudge most ads, and I'm sort of fond of the text ads that tend toward the relevant.
On the other hand, if an ad includes stealing focus, loading slowly while preventing the content I actually want to see from loading, video, or audio, in desl 's America, you'd be tarred and feathered. (This is hyperbole, but seriously, I have strong opinions.) That slow loading thing triggers a lot of spite from me, as I'm pretty good at ignoring anything visual. Audio still bugs the shit out of me.
So I broke down, after being started by some "Congratulations, you've won..." audio thing that I didn't want to hear and installed adblock for the chrome browser, which is my browser of choice on my personal laptop. (It's my browser of choice because it loads everything faster, and I like getting at things faster. I do not suffer fools gladly, especially if those fools are bloaty bits of browser software. (I find, in my highly in no way scientific study that Chrome loads pages faster than firefox + adblock or safari in any state).
So hooray adblock for chrome. It's made my life that much better. So I donated to the author, who apparently just went full-time on that project to the exclusion of other work.
If you're so inclined: chrome.google.com/extensions/detail/gighmmpiobklfepjocnamgkkbiglidom
BTW, donating felt great!